Facebook Gets MIC To Cease Poking Action Figure

Barely five days after offering for sale an action figure resembling Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, Made In China has ceased and desisted.

Told you so: When Made In China debuted an action figure that looked like Mark Zuckerberg but didn’t bear his name nor the name of his company in any of the accompanying text, we’d conjectured that was a deliberate legal maneuver. So we’re not surprised to see that just five days later, MIC has had to apologize to the social network, in response to a legal threat.

Apparently, a law firm in Beijing sent a cease-and-desist letter to MIC, which makes sense given that a legal threat from the U.S.

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